Sectional partition unit construction



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Patented Apr. 39, 1935 STATES PATENT QFFlfiE SECTIONAL PARTITION UNIT CONSTRUCTIIUN Original application November 23, 1927, Serial 'No. 235,332. Divided and this application June 29, 1929, Serial No. 374,657

Claims.

This application is a division out of my application Serial No. 235,332, originally filed Nov. 23, 1927.

In metallic partition construction, it has been customary heretofore to provide posts or columns having grooves or spaced shoulders for holding and supporting the panel framing carrying the other structure generally. Such posts required to be of very rugged structure, supporting as they did the stresses of the panelling at large, and both in manufacture and erection, complication and resultant expense was occasioned. In accordance with the present invention, I have devised however a construction in which panel sectional units are self contained and self supporting, eliminating post members as supports, while retaining whatever ornamental form may be desired. A further provision is an adjustable assemblage whereby the required dimension may be directly had for various ceiling heights. Other objects and advantages will appear as the description proceeds.

To the accomplishment of the foregoing and related ends, the invention, then, consists of the features hereinafter fully described, and particularly pointed out in the claims, the following description and the annexed drawings setting forth one of the various ways in which the principle of the invention may be applied.

In said annexed drawings:

Fig. l is a front elevation showing a partition wall constructed according to the invention; Fig. 2 is an enlarged sectional detail taken on a plane indicated by the line II-II, Fig. 1; Fig. 3 is a similar sectional detail taken on a plane indicated bythe line III-III, Fig. 1; Fig. 4 is a vertical section taken on a plane indicated by the line IV-IV, Fig. 1; Fig. 5 is a perspective view of a sectional unit; Fig. 6. is an enlarged sectional detailshowing the connection of the tie rod; Fig. '7 is a fragmentary perspective view showing the assembly of horizontal and vertical elements; Fig. 8 is a front elevation of a complete unit; and Figs. 9 and 10 are sectional details taken on planes indicated by the lines IXIX and X-X respectively, Fig. 8.

Referring more particularly to the drawings, there is shown in Fig. 1 a partition wall comprising for illustration a door and adjacent sectional units, the latter containing for example two glass lights 2, 3, and one opaque panel 4 of sheet metal, and having vertical stiles 5 with extensions 6, and a horizontal member or ceiling rail 1, and a horizontal member 9 with cornicing 8, chair rail mold l2.

The panel-stretcher elements 2, 3 or t engage at their ends in grooves, as at E3, Fig. 3, in channel-shaped elements 5 or the like, packing 5 strips or putty being employed for tightness. Similarly, the panel stretchers engage in grooves provided in the horizontal members 1, l0, H, etc., and the assemblage is bound together by suitable ties, for instance tie rods l5 which extend between vertical stile channel members and within the respective horizontal members, as shown more in detail in Figs. 4 and 5. For accommodation to various ceiling heights, the unit is preferably of a telescopic type, stile-channel members 6 being telescopically slidable within stile-channel members 5, Fig. 3, and the respective panel-stretcher elements as required, seating in the grooves H, M.

The horizontal rail members are shaped up of sheet metal to a form presenting bevelling or beading as may be desired, and of a length to engage between corresponding vertical stile channel members, and convenient engagement being had by means of cleats on the latter. Preferably integral cleats are provided as struck-up 'tongue-cleats ll diverging from center line, and the end of the rail member may thus straddle the Ill, base rail H and mop strip or cleats, as shown more particularly in Figs. 6 and 7, and be held tightly in assemblage by the ties The horizontal rail member 9 may advantageously be made up of mating channel pieces, held together in suitable manner, and preferably having struck-up tongues t upon which cornice members 8, likewise of channel construction may be seated, so as to snap over and. engage by their flanges f with the tongues t. For the convenient placement of paney-stretchers, it is advantageous to construct the groove of the receiving members by spaced shoulders I, s being-integrally formed, and the other s removable. For this, I prefer to form a narrow slotway w in the body of the receiving element, and spaced from the shoulder s at suitable distance, and correspondingly the removable shoulder s may then be shaped up to hollow channel form having one lip or flange projecting to engage in the slot w whe seated down in position. A sectional unit thus made up may comprise as many panel-stretcher elements as desired, these being seated between the horizontal rail elements and the vertical channel members or stile channels, the latter being slidably nested as 55 Suitable binding means, as clips 20 may then be set into the flanges of the complemental stile channel members 5, and the structure then is bound together unit to unit. For a finish, a facing plate 2! may then be set in place with its inturned flanges 2i snapped over the ends 20' of the clips 20, to thereby be held in place. When for any reason it be desired subsequently to remove the facing member 2i, this may be done by prying loose from the clip ends 20.

Similarly, for the upper complemental stile chan-' nel-members 6, clips It may be employed as convenient binding means, and the facing plate it! may be snapped thereover as a finish.

It will thus be seen that sectional units may be had, capable of assembly to form wall partitions to the extent desired, and by virtue of the telescopic construction, the ceiling height requirement of any particular situation may be simply and completely met. At the same time, by reason of the facing plates I 9, 2i, and the cornice members 8, a finish eiiect may be, had in detail as desired. For panel-stretcher elements, glass, sheet metal, fiber or other material as individually preferred may be employed.

Other'modes of applying the principle of my invention may be employed instead of that described, change being made as regards the features as set forth, provided the means stated by any of the following claims, or the equivalent of such, be employed. 7

I therefore particularly point out and distinctly claim as my invention:

1. In a metallic partition section, the combination of vertical channel members having out standingflanges, a horizontal hollow member engageable therebetween having a shoulder and a slot spaced from such shoulder, a removable shoulder member having a free flange adapted to seat in such slot to retain a panel stretcher; and a cornice facing engageable with said horizontal member.

2. In a metallic partition section, the combination of vertical channel members having outstanding flanges, a horizontal hollow member engageable therebetween having a shoulder and a slot spaced from such shoulder, a removable shoulder having a free flange adapted to seat in such slot to retain a panel stretcher, divergent tongues on said horizontal member, and a cornice facing adapted to snap over said tongue.

3. In a metallic partition section, the combination of vertical channel members having outstanding flanges, horizontal hollow members engageable therebetween, panel stretchers carried by said vertical channel members and said horicent units in spaced relation; and facing members secured by resiliency and covering said clips.

5. In metallic partition construction; panel units consisting of vertical sheet metal stiles with hollow horizontal cross members removably secured therebetween; clips securing stiles of adjacent units in spaced relation; and facing members secured by resiliency to said clips.

6. In metallic partition construction; panel units having vertical sheet metal members of generally channel section, the web portion whereof is depressed to form agroove, and panel stretchers extending between grooves of associated verticals, the flanges of the verticals being directed away from the stretcher; and individually applicable spaced clips for securing opposed flanges together.

-7. In metallic partition construction, panel units comprising sheet metal verticals of generally channel shape, the web portions whereof are grooved, and panel stretcher elements extending between grooves of associated verticals, the flanges of the verticals being directed away from the stretcher elements; spaced clips for securing opposed. flages together, and facing members engageable over said clips.

8. In metallic partition construction; panel units having framing presenting stretcher-receiving grooves on three sides and a removable member on the fourth side to allow insertion of a stretcher; and means for securing adjacent units in assembled relation, said means including spaced clips engaging opposed flanges on the adjacent ends.

9. In a metallic partition section, the combination of vertical channel members having outstanding flanges, horizontal hollow members engageable therebetween, panel stretchers carried by said vertical channel members and said horizontal members, i'acings engageable with said horizontal hollow members, and iacings engageable by resilient means with complemental adjacent vertical channel members.

10. In metallic partition construction; vertical channel members having flanges and grooved webs; horizontal hollow groove-providing members engageable between webs of pairs of said vertical channel members, with the flanges outstanding; panel members carried by said vertical channel members and said horizontal members and positioned by the grooves provided; and facings engageable with complemental flanges or adjacent vertical channel members and held by resilient engagement by projections spaced along at intervals.

JOHN A. BOHNBACK. I 

